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tacile Sorry game board with audio card reader

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Colorado students in Northglenn High School's Engineering Pathway took up the challenge to design accessible tools for sports and games. Using feedback from their peers, they created prototypes for playing wheelchair soccer, basketball, baseball, and table top versions of popular games like pool, air hockey, and board games. Working in...

Blind and sighted students talking at a table.

Build a Better Book Goes to College

Assembling Inclusion

Black box with felt and 3D printed animals of a monkey, dog, bird, snake, and elephant.

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3D printed tactile puzzle pieces with raised icons and shapes.

Build a Better Book with Noun Project

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A blind child explores a tactile book with her fingers.

Imagining a new way to read, one 3D-printed book at a time

July 3, 2014

CU Boulder researchers have begun a new project to create 3D-printed tactile picture books.

Blindfolded teens feel 3D-printed tactile book pages.

CU-Boulder researchers create children's books with 3-D printing

June 29, 2014

CU Boulder researchers create 3D-printed tactile books to promote literacy among young children with visual impairments.

A blind child explores a tactile picture with her fingers.

Picture books for visually impaired kids go 3D thanks to CU-Boulder research team

June 23, 2014

CU Boulder's Tom Yeh and his team collaborate with the Anchor Center for Blind Children in Denver to create 3D-printed tactile picture books for young children.